AFRICA. §f 
His habitation was fulted to his fupreme 
dignity. It was, indeed, a hut only, like thofe 
of his fubjeds, and, Hke them, covered with 
the fkins of animals ; but it was much larger, 
as well as more elevated ; and around it Vv^ere 
fix others, occupied by his family and deC* 
lined for them alone. 
The natural drynefs of the country inha-- 
bited by the Kabobiquas obliges them to dig 
wells, for their own ufe as well as for their cat- 
tle; but as the fame caufe often dries up 
thefe wells, they are then forced to remove, 
and to feek elfe where a foil more abundant 
in fprings ; for Fiflh-River, though confider- 
able in the rainy feafon, is often during the 
great heats entirely deftitute of water. 
The long journeys, which thefe too frequent 
emigrations compel them to undertake, and 
the intercourfe which they thence have with 
other nations, muft necefTarily infpire them 
with ideas unknown to the fettled tribes ; and 
it would not be unnatural to fuppofe, that to 
this extenfion of ideas are they indebted for 
that fuperiorlty of intelligence which elevates 
them above their neighbours : but I have al- 
ready fpoken of a nation, who, like them, being 
forced 
